Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1942–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.
More children were named Shyla in 2008 than in any other year — 365 of them. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1942. The 2025 position is #2,298, on 79 births.
Compared with 2015, births are down 50%. It slipped 446 places against the previous year.
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.
How many people are named Shyla?
An estimated 7,900 living Americans are called Shyla. That is out of 8,026 recorded births since 1880.
This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is
multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table.
How the estimate works.
How old is the average Shyla?
Half of living Shylas are older than 20, half younger. More of them were born in the 2000s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Shyla a millennial-era name.
Your Shyla
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.
Where Shyla is most common
Relative to births, California carries 1.4× the national share of Shylas. Florida and Arizona follow.
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Shyla is over-represented, 2016–2025.
The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.